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Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us...Notes & Queries - Page 405by William White - 1894Full view - About this book

...at home : — that they are " encompassed with a great cloud of witnesses ;" and that they ought to lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset them, that in a word, they ought to constitute the centre of an influence which shall be felt through...

...Pilgrims on Earth, but they derired a better Country, that it an Heavenly. Hebrews xi. 13. 16. " / . / us lay aside every weight, and the Sin that doth so easily beset us, and run with patience the race that is set before its. Hebrews xii. 1. London, printed for Thomas Malthus, at the Sun, in the Poultry. 1683....

...dead to the world, in that measure as he is dead to it, is freed from the world. " Let us therefore lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us ; and then we may run with patience the race that is set before us ;" Heb. xii. 1. This makes a poor Christian...

...before you ; these are the things which the mercy of God now places in your power. Will you not then lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset you l3 ; will you not run with patience the race that is set before you, looking unto Jesus, the author14...

...their not coming, that they increase their sin, and secure misery to themselves, because they do not ' lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset them,' that they may come to the marriage-supper. It is as if we should excuse ourselves from the duties...

...encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, O that we may lay aside every weight, and the sin that does so easily beset us ; and run with patience the race that is set before us ! Teach and enable us, O King of Saints, to make a right improvement of those gifts and...

...Heb. xii. ' wherefore seeing we also are compassed about' with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher...

...to exert themselves to the uttermost: "Having then, says he, so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." Thus let us consider the Reformers of our...

...whole body of sin and death, — that we should crucify the old man with his lusts, — that we should lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, — that we should cast away the works of darkness, — that we should awake from sleep, and arise...

...whole body of sin and death, — that we should crucify the old man with his lusts, — that we should lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, — that we should cast away the works of darkness, — that we should awake from sleep, and arise...